Music and World-Building in the Colonial City: Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860-1880

ISBN-13: 9780367495640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

Helen J. English

Opis

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia especially coal-mining regions of New South Wales used music as a resource for world-building. It will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers working in the fields of sociomusicology, colonial studies and cultural studies.

O autorze

Helen J. English is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has a strong interest in music communities, past and present, and in capturing ways music is at work in the everyday and the out-of-the-ordinary day.